life

Here is a blog journal of our brand. We will show you the behind the scenes of designing our collections as well as features with our ultimate Love Shack girls: friends, models, photographers, and our muses. Welcome to the inner circle girls!

"I was raised in a pretty bohemian environment, surrounded by artists and musicians. My parents are massively in love, but unmarried, which wasn't the most conventional thing to do at the time. I always had a wonderful example of healthy romantic and family relationships between my parents and my 3 older brothers. I move to New York to study poetry in college when I was 17 and also found myself working in fashion fairly quickly, assisting Kate Young. I also began the path to working as a songwriter while I was in college, and starting Littledoe in my last year of schooling. Needles to say, things slightly shifted over the years, Littledoe has grown into a bigger project than I'd anticipated, and I'm now working as a singer/songwriter, with a record coming out later this year."

Where did the idea start for Little doe?

I was really inspired and intrigued by the California Canyon 1970s aesthetic at a time when that was not in vogue at all. For clothing, I was able to source vintage, but for accessories, I decided to make my own headpieces simply so I had something to wear. It caught on pretty quickly that I was making them and people began asking me to buy them.

What is your process for sourcing inspiration and ideas for your pieces?

Often times I do find that inspiration tends to find me, in the sense that before I begin work on a collection, I've already got a pretty good idea of what I'm going for. If not, then I'll get lost at the library or old photo archives and see what pops out to me, pick a very specific theme, and kind of work from that base point and built out around it.

What does a normal day look like for you?

There's not really much normalcy in my life at the moment, as I'm constantly moving, traveling, juggling between music & Littledoe. I am a very early riser, so I usually will wake up and lay in bed for a while and look at emails, then either go for a run or to a yoga class, then have a coffee and continue my emails. Often a few meetings in the afternoon, then, if I'm in LA, I'll come home and work on music and cook dinner, or go out and meet friends for wine and food, then sometimes go see a friend play or go dancing with girlfriends if I'm feeling up for it.

You are also a talented singer-songwriter. Tell us about what you are doing right now.

I just finished a small tour and am gearing up to release the first few songs from a new record I've been working on. I think it's the best work I've done & I hope people will agree. This record has been incredibly personal for me, and has been a very cathartic experience, so my hope is that people will find some solace in that as well.

Tell us about your home and how your inspiration influences your décor.

I have always gravitated towards mid century style, and that has evolved as I've grown up. I tend to be more attracted to less clutter and more clean architecture in design these days, with a lot of influence from nature and the outside world. I split my time between a 1920s storybook cottage in the hills of Los Angeles, and an old co-op building in the East village in New York. They both are decorated with a sort of clean 1970s influence, lots of wood, velvet, & warm leathers.

Where do you go to escape?

Northern Ontario, Key Biscayne, Upstate New York, or if time disallows I'll simply hide in my house and lock all the doors

What are you listening to?

This week, Sam Cooke on repeat, but usually, reggae music is probably my most favourite music. Derek Harriet, Augustus Pablo, Lee Scratch Perry, all the good men.

World of LSF

Stylist, designer and creative director Rebecca Hessel Cohen was born and raised in NYC. For over seven years she worked as Senior Fashion and Beauty Editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine, where she styled and produced celebrity covers and fashion and beauty editorials. While traveling extensively on photo shoots around the world, Rebecca fell in love with various countries, cultures and aesthetics, all of which continue to influence her design and point of view.

It was her childhood summers spent at her family’s Hamptons home where her love affair with the beach began, becoming the perfect backdrop for her fairytale wedding in 2010 and later the inspiration for her wanderlust label LoveShackFancy.

The colors, the light and the salty warm air inspired Rebecca's magical backyard wedding, evocative of the South of France meets Great Expectations. Always the dreamer and creator, Rebecca designed her own bridesmaid dresses to make her dream a reality. "I truly wanted my bridesmaids to look and feel like ethereal goddesses, dancing barefoot in the garden under the moonlit summer night."

Receiving such an overwhelming response from family and friends, Rebecca saw an opportunity and a need for effortless pieces women can wear from day to night, city to beach. Rebecca officially left the magazine world to throw herself into her new business venture in 2012, successfully launching the brand LoveShackFancy and becoming a mother within the same month. She launched the eponymous label in May 2013 and evolved the collection to become the ultimate bohemian inspired womens fashion collection forming the perfect travel wardrobe with a cult following of boho, globe-trotting goddesses, including Gwyneth Paltrow, JLo and Chrissy Tiegen. She now employs a team of five and stocks in Barneys, Intermix, Saks, Neimans, Revolve, Shopbop and more than 50 specialty retailers around the world.